Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of the Very High Redshift Universe

Abstract

We show that, if many GRBs are indeed produced by the collapse of massive stars, GRBs and their afterglows provide a powerful probe of the very high redshift (z > 5) universe.

To appear in Proc. of the 5th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, 5 pages, LaTeX

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